by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2022 In protest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last month, China announced it was suspending counter-narcotics cooperation with the United States. Officials fear China’s action will make an already devastating crisis of fentanyl overdoses in the U.S. even worse. Unless Beijing resumes the cooperation and does more […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2022 Singapore began the mass vaccination of women of childbearing age in June 2021. In March of 2022, exactly nine months later, Singapore reported a dramatic decrease in births. From March until June of this year, Singapore recorded about 1,000 fewer live births compared to 2021, a decline of 8.5 […]
FPI / August 31, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com In the event of a war between China and Taiwan, undersea cables which carry Internet and telephone traffic could be cut and global shipping would likely be significantly disrupted, a U.S. think tank said in an Aug. 29 report. The report by George Mason University’s Mercatus Center said that, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2022 As the communist regime in Beijing tightens its grip on Hong Kong via its new national security law, more than 140,000 residents of the former British colony have applied this year for British visas that open a pathway to UK citizenship. As of the end of June, 140,500 Hong […]
FPI / August 25, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com Kim Yo-Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and a top official in the Pyongyang regime, accused South Korea of spreading Covid-19 to the North via balloons launched from the South. In response, she essentially threatened to launch bio warfare on the South. In a speech […]
FPI / August 12, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com Communist China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology carried out gain-of-function research on a virus that is much deadlier than Covid-19, according to recent testimony before the U.S. Senate. Steven Quay, a medical doctor, told the Senate Governmental Affairs subcommittee on emerging threats that the Wuhan lab, where the coronavirus is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The following by WorldTribune.com columnist Don Kirk, originally appeared in The Hill. The visit to Asia by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi exposed one reality that many people did not realize: The United States cannot count on its ally, the Republic of Korea, for support if war breaks out in the Taiwan Straits. The United States, […]
FPI / August 10, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher The Biden Administration’s weak response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desire to visit Taiwan has been compounded by its weak response to China’s ongoing threatening exercises against Taiwan. This all but guarantees that China will increase its pressure on Taiwan, undermining America’s stature and deterrent power […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, August 5, 2022 Communist Party of China (CPC) General Secretary Xi Jinping’s internal civil war against his party rivals in the build-up to the XXth CPC National Congress — now likely to occur in November 2022 — took on new dimensions with […]
FPI / August 3, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com South Korea has made significant advancements in its missile program out of the eye of the international media. But the rapid pace of development is being closely tracked by North Korea, China, and Russia. Though South Korea rarely releases information on how many ballistic and cruise missiles it has, […]
